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Since its inception in 1996, the International Dublin Literary Award has championed novels from around the world, often ignoring the work of mainstream writers for those whose books maybe less familiar to English-speaking readers.

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Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize From Booker Prize-winner and literary phenomenon Han Kang, a lyrical and disquieting exploration of personal grief, written through the prism of the color white While on a writer's residency, a nameless narrator wanders the twin white worlds...

July 4, 2016 After winning the Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarian , Han has written a harrowing second novel that traces the long-term reverberations from South Korea’s 1980 Gwangju Uprising, in which government troops killed anywhere between 200 and 2,000 civilians in the chaos...

From the internationally bestselling author of THE VEGETARIAN, a "rare and astonishing" (The Observer) portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice In the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed. The story of this...

There is no shortage of books about coping with death. Joan Didion’s devastating account of the year following the demise of her husband, “The Year of Magical Thinking,” comes to mind. Meghan O’Rourke’s “The Long Goodbye,” a memoir about her then-55-year-old mother’s death on Christmas Day in 2008...

"It`s not that they are short, it`s more that they are no longer than they need to be. Short novels free you from the idea of reading as a form of productivity, and of books as something to get through." Rónán Hession

International Events (9)

Korea was invited as the Guest of Honor at the 2016 Paris International Book Fair, held from March 16–20, in celebration of 130 years of diplomatic relations between Korea and France. Nearly 3,000 writers from 45 countries attended the fair where around 800 events were held. A total of 30 Korean...

LTI Korea Signs MOU with British Centre for Literary Translation and the National Centre for Writing, Participates in Summer School

LTI Korea Signs MOU with British Centre for Literary Translation and the National Centre for Writing, Participates in Summer School In 2015, the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea) (President: Kim Sa-in) sponsored the addition of a Korean-English translation course at the annual...

This year’s London Book Fair, held from April 8-10 at Earls Court, was an exciting occasion for the Korean publishing and literary community, with Korea being showcased as the Market Focus country for 2014. The London Book Fair Korea Market Focus programme consisted broadly of two different types:...

The Buenos Aires International Book Fair ( Spanish: Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires ) is held every April in Buenos Aires , Argentina , and is one of the top five book expos in the world, oriented to the literary community as well as to the general public.

The LTI Korea Forum in Japan was held as a literary event celebrating the invitation to the Tokyo International Book Fair, which has been held from July 3rd to 6th, as the guest of honor country. The Tokyo International Book Fair is the largest book fair held in Japan, the secondbiggest publishing...